When a child is hospitalized with a serious illness such as cancer, parents and other close family often take on new roles as caregivers. Previous qualitative studies indicate that caregiving coordination work changes systematically across illness and ...

When a child is admitted to the hospital with a critical illness, their family must adapt and manage care and stress. CSCW researchers have shown the potential for collaborative technologies to support and augment care collaboration between patients and ...

Efficient Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) management necessitates comprehensive tracking of various factors that influence blood sugar levels. However, tracking health data for children with T1D poses unique challenges, as it requires the active involvement of ...

When a child is hospitalized with a serious illness, their family members must process emotional stress, quickly absorb complicated clinical information, and take on new caregiving tasks. They also have to coordinate with each other and with other ...

Communication about chronic disease is challenging for affected children and their peers. However, peers play a crucial role in the quality of life, reduction of disease burden, and adherence to treatment regimens of children with chronic disease. ...

To provide effective support in child health care, social robots’ behaviors should be well-tailored to the care context and situated user needs. This research focuses on a social robot (iPal) in the waiting room for a vaccination. In an experiment, ...

Pediatric bone age assessment is clinically valuable for the evaluation of a variety of pediatric endocrine and orthopedic conditions. Recent studies have explored automated methods for bone age assessment using machine learning techniques, yielding ...

Background. For uncommon events in medicine, such as pediatric CPR, more frequent training is associated with improved performance among healthcare providers and physicians in training. Gamified learning may facilitate motivation to practice CPR, though ...

Objective. Multi-patient care is important among medical trainees in an emergency department (ED). While resident efficiency is a typically measured metric, multi-patient care involves both efficiency and diagnostic / treatment accuracy. Multi-patient ...

We explore the information needs of hospitalized children by analyzing co-design prototypes created by children. We facilitated two simultaneous, yet separate co-design sessions with mixed groups including both children who had been hospitalized and ...

Objective. Simulation-based medical education may aid to standardize clinical performance measures, though there is little evidence for using an immersive, mannequin-based simulation for knowledge acquisition. We predicted that residents who had ...

Hospital patients often move from one bed to another for both medical and nonmedical reasons. In a highly utilized quaternary inpatient pediatric unit we have studied, bed and nursing resources are stressed not only by frequent movement of patients but ...

Pneumonia and asthma are the common diseases in pediatric population. The diseases share some similarities of symptoms that make them difficult to separate without the proper diagnostic tools. The majority of pneumonia cases occur in the third world ...

In this paper we explore the use of a mobile video-conferencing tool (MVCT) in advanced home care of children. We present the results from a qualitative study where we have evaluated mobile video communication between the patient's home and the hospital ...

Bedside clinicians routinely identify temporal patterns in physiologic data in the process of choosing and administering treatments intended to alter the course of critical illness for individual patients. Our primary interest is the study of ...

The Well Child Visit between a parent and a pediatrician is one of the fundamental means to ensure the healthy development of young children. In this paper, we present the results of a qualitative, formative study aiming to understand the nature of the ...

Robotic companions offer a unique combination of embodiment and computation which open many new interesting opportunities in the field of pediatric care. As these new technologies are developed, we must consider the central research questions of how ...

Improving diagnostic accuracy is essential. The extent of diagnostic uncertainty at patient admission is not well described in critically ill children. Therefore, we studied the extent that pediatric trainee diagnostic performance could be improved with ...

A conference sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) titled "Translating Civilian and Defense Technologies for Pediatric Critical Care and Rehabilitation Research" was held on May ...

A system was developed to use gestural interface technology and interactive robotics to facilitate motor development, functional mobility, and speech and language development of children with a wide range of disabilities. The prototype Gestural ...